Comment Re:Interesting angle on social engineering... (Score 2, Interesting) 329
That is what I thought first, too.
Well, I still think it is a very interesting angle on social engineering as you put it.
However, if you do that with a large enough company to get "undetected" (assuming smaller companies would recognise something fishy is going on) there should be a large risk that this laptop goes to the IT-people first to get completely altered to companies standards.
That usually should mean complete format and using an image of whatever the company is using as client OS. So there goes your malware (at least most of it).
So I am very confident that this has to be taken into account.
However, if you do that with a large enough company to get "undetected" (assuming smaller companies would recognise something fishy is going on) there should be a large risk that this laptop goes to the IT-people first to get completely altered to companies standards.
That usually should mean complete format and using an image of whatever the company is using as client OS. So there goes your malware (at least most of it).
So I am very confident that this has to be taken into account.